A man shot and killed his girlfriend inside a car on Saturday and video-called her estranged husband before driving to the Florida City police station to turn himself in, all while her body was still in the car, police said.
Alexander Roque, 48, was booked into jail Sunday and faces second-degree murder charges, according to online jail records.
Roque allegedly shot his girlfriend — identified by family as 44-year-old Yessenia Rodriguez Marquez — inside a white Hyundai Tucson on Saturday night before driving to the police station along West Palm Drive.
He surrendered to officers and told them that the body was inside the vehicle along with the firearm he shot her with, according to an arrest report released Monday.
Officers said they found the victim in the front passenger seat of the vehicle along with a revolver on the driver’s side floorboard.
“It was a moment of such despair that I cannot explain to you how immense my pain is,” Marquez’s mother said. “I felt desperate to see that he is a sadistic, evil person.”
During an initial investigation, police contacted a witness, identified as the victim’s estranged husband. He told detectives that Roque sent him a picture of the victim’s body inside the vehicle, covered in blood. He claimed he also received a phone call from Roque, in which he admitted to fatally shooting her, the arrest report stated.
The victim’s estranged husband said Roque later video-called him through WhatsApp, showing him her lifeless body, which he screen-recorded and later gave to investigators, the report continued.
Police said Roque also confessed to his cousin over the phone and sent a similar photo, who then called 911.
“He brutally murdered her there and then made a video call to the girl’s father,” Marquez’s mother said. “In the video call, he told her that he was a man and that he had to be respected. And that’s why he killed Yessenia.”
Cameras captured Roque being arrested outside of the police department late Saturday night.
“We feel very bad as a family,” Marquez’s sister-in-law said Monday. “Yessenia was a very good mother, since she came to this country she was in the school.”
Marquez arrived from Cuba seven months ago with her 12-year-old daughter, Marquez’s ex-husband told NBC6. He alleged Roque became romantically involved with her three months ago and even gifted her a dog. The ex-husband also claimed that Roque was trying to gold Marquez and her child against their will.
Roque’s neighbors were shocked to hear of the alleged killing. Virginia Díaz said she never saw the girlfriend, but she saw Roque sometimes.
“He looked very calm and like a good person,” she said. “He never did anything to us.”
Roque appeared in bond court Monday and is being held in jail without bond.
Miami-Dade Police are leading the investigation.
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